On 4/10/07, John Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure you are all aware that Canonical has released a beta version of > its launchpad service. Launchpad was founded to run the Ubuntu project, > but it's now open to other projects. Three--Zope, Jokosher and > SilvaCMS--are hosted there now. <snip> > One of our breakout sessions at DAM-3 was "defect tracking across > projects". The summary of this session was: > > - did not have the right people to make progress
I've cc'ed Olav, one of the appropriate people needed that could help us make progress on this issue, or at least provide us some good pointers. (Incidentally, he saw the last DAM summary notes and was interested about the defect tracking stuff and asked me more questions about what went on there.) > - explored a few use cases > - The GNOME project uses a point system on defects. Points > are given for comments, resolved bugs, etc. Developers with > more points can do more with the system. > > Since this group of architects spans orgs, projects, and distros, I have > to at least raise the question with this group regarding our defect > tracking issues. > > - Is the work on defect tracking across projects that is being > done with the Launchpad site something that can be leveraged > by the community? No. It is not free software (and in my opinion there is no reasonable reason why it couldn't be), and thus not acceptable by many groups within the community. Some may be willing to accept it for their particular projects, but it really will not answer the general problems of the community since far too many will be unwilling to accept or use it at this time. See also https://launchpad.net/faq ("Is Launchpad open source?") and http://lwn.net/Articles/228919/. > - Does anyone on this list have some experience with the bug > linking that is being done on Launchpad? I've used Launchpad some (I have occasionally used bug trackers of several distros to see if there are any additional bugs in the wild that I don't know about, or if there are more details about bugs that I'm having a hard time gathering enough info about. Ubuntu folk are some of the best at making sure their bug reports are filed upstream, but still don't get them all.) I went through a few dozen of their bugs in Launchpad adding various comments, and even used their upstream feature to connect it to a bugzilla.gnome.org bug. That particular feature seems pretty slick, though having only used it once (maybe twice?) I still probably don't know all the details. Having something similar in bugzilla would be really cool. Hope that helps, Elijah _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
